Word: feds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual flow of tonnage through the "Soo" canals is several times that through the Panama, and includes, besides iron, coal and wheat, a miscellany containing among other things thousands of automobiles and a large percentage of the butter and eggs with which the East is fed...
...cinema. The scenario follows the simple historical account of mutiny aboard the Imperial Russian cruiser, Prince Potemkin, in the year 1905. It dallies with no hero, no heroine, no plot complication. The drama is of the crew, the human beings who scrub, polish, mother the steel monster and are fed, in return, with wormy meat. They protest. A sail cloth is thrown over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot them down. With one accord, all the men rebel, fling the officers overboard, commandeer the ship, receive food and sympathy from the harbor town of Odessa, steam past the rest...
...only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean out the stables; then I had to help feed the cows and cattle. . . . The hogs also had to be fed. . . . There was one other job that was wholly mine. No one ever took it away from me and there was no one else that I could wish it upon. I refer, of course, to filling the wood box in the kitchen. It sometimes seemed to me that it had no bottom...
...worth, flowers, $50,000 worth. Adolphus Busch could think only in multiples of 50 that day as squads of relatives and platoons of friends came to his 40-acre flower garden at Pasadena, Calif., to wish the couple felicitations. He, merry and expansive, withal a little ill, welcomed them, fed them, entertained them, as no man since Roman politicians has done. "Kolossal," cried guests...
...with the skins of beasts. We eat, four times a day, frijoles1 and chili with tortillas.2 Also we like deer meat, chickens, turtles, lizards and rabbits. We chew peyote,3 and on feasts we drink pinole.4 No one of our tribe would eat the meat of any creature that fed upon another creature. Reverence lends wings to the legs. Only thus can a man be happy...